Rossignol Skis for a Great Ski Experience

When it comes to quality products, Rossignol skis can be your best choice. With over 100 years of manufacturing experience, Rossignol continues to be on the top of the list of many people in terms of skiing and snowboarding. Whichever path you take, Rossignol offers a wide variety of ski and ski gear options.

Aside from being reputable when it comes to quality, Rossignol also boast fashionable designs. If you are into stylish skis, take advantage of the skis offered by the company as they are designed by some fashion icons like Jean-Charles de Castelbajac and Emilio Pucci. While you take pleasures from the good performance of these skis, you can also enjoy skis with signature designs. Just like you, your children can also take advantage of the goodness of these skis through the Bandit Jr. and Bandit Girl. These skis are designed for shorter skiers who are into freestyle skiing. If you are a cross-country skier, settle for the X-lum Classis C1. Such ski possesses lightweight and offers less snow resistance. If you are into versatility, the Hip Chick Telemark is perfect for you. This ski model, which is typically designed for women, possesses a pointed nose feature that allows easy gliding through powder and pack.

For other female skiers, Rossignol in the form of the Alpine Active Passion III can also be enjoyed for a more advanced skiing experience. This ski model comes in good cleaned up surface and medium speed function. The Freeski Exhibition Scratch Girl FS is another great model that female skiers can take advantage of. This Zen-like bamboo model allows you to glide through the air smoothly. Such ski is also perfect for those who aim to have an excellent pipe or park skiing experience.

Rossignol skis have proven their worth through the years, but it is still best to stay safe. In connection, make sure to purchase the bindings recommended for your skis. Make sure to go for the ones recommended by the manufacturer to avoid problems while you ski. Similar principle applies to buying other gears like ski boots. Your ski boots need to be compatible with your ski bindings. It will also be of incredible help if you look for a highly regarded Rossignol dealer in your area. Information about dependable dealers can be found on the official web page of Rossignol. If you want to end up with the one that best suits your taste and style, spend sufficient time visiting the website. Rossignol can be very helpful when it comes to your skiing needs and wants. However, you got to have some honesty in terms of your ability level every time you buy Rossignol products or items, especially skis.

Skiers Rule, Snowboarders Not Welcome - The Alta Ultimatum

In the early 80s, less than 10% of all ski resorts in the USA permitted access to snowboarders. Nowadays, just 4 anti-snowboard resorts remain. As snowboarding entered the main stream - going from a renegade fad to becoming an Olympic sport - resorts across the world have embraced snowboarding customers.

And why not? Skiing was getting stale, and snowboarding was attracting a whole new generation of snow sports enthusiasts who had no previous interest in the two-plank discipline. The more foresightedly ski resorts quickly realized that by promoting snowboarding, and building areas called terrain parks which had specially made jumps, they could reap the financial rewards. It wasn't long before the idea spread to other resorts and people realized that rather than being a fad to be shunned, snowboarding was a cash cow waiting to be milked.

But Alta, a renowned ski resort in Utah's Salt Lake City, remains strongly opposed to the snowboard movement and in doing so, has become a bone of contention in snowboarding circles, yet worshipped by many of the older skier generation, in equal zeal. Snowboarders' opinions vary from bitterness to apathy; some don't care and are happy to take their business elsewhere; yet for others, Alta's reluctance to modernize, represents an almost politically incorrect discrimination, on a par with sexism and racism, and is something which should have been stamped out long ago.

Indeed, the skier-snowboarder rivalry has for the large part disappeared from the slopes of the world. Anyone who has spent extended time skiing or snowboarding can tell you that whatever animosity once existed has long since faded, and the only place the feud still manifests itself is in the pages of tabloid type media which seek to stir up a story whenever a skier and snowboarder have any type of collision on the slope. The truth in these matters is almost always invariably down to fact that one or both were beginners, rather than having anything to do with their chosen snow sport.

No one knows how long the slopes, ski chalets and hotels in Salt Lake City will be waiting for snowboarders to arrive, but for the foreseeable future, Alta is sticking to its snow guns and remains the last line of defence for die-hard skiers, who still pine for the time when the slopes were free of the 'reckless snowboard hoodlum'; the fact that Alta have just brought out a new "no-snowboarders" t-shirt suggests that the two-planks brigade have no plans to change their skiers-only policy any time soon.